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Feynman the fearless, an adventurer in physics

30 March 2011

By Dan Falk

In Quantum Man&colon; Richard Feynman’s life in science, Lawrence Krauss ably describes the life of the Nobel prizewinner, womaniser and physics giant

IT IS hardly a surprise that two previous biographies of Richard Feynman have the word “genius” in their titles. One of the giants of 20th-century physics, he transformed our understanding of matter and energy, and had a greater impact on the field than any thinker since Einstein.

Lawrence Krauss, a physicist, tireless science populariser and author of The Physics of Star Trek, has crafted a rich and entertaining biography of the man he describes …